Published Works

Boxes
(young adult chapter book): Imperium Publishing
July 2022
Behind the Mask
(mystery novel in two parts): Glass Lyre Press - Quitab Editions
March 2022
The Leading Trees
(traditional story poems): Imperium Publishing
Second Edition March 2022
"bird into..."
(one-line poem): Whiptail (online)
January 2022
Camera Obscura
(poems on sight and insight): Imperium Publishing
Second Edition January 2022
Who Lives on the Moon?
(children's science): Imperium Publishing
August 2021
"fairy ring"
(tanka): FreshOut Magazine (online)
August 2021
"breaking ice moon"
(haiku): FreshOut Magazine (online)
July 2021
"jury verdict"
(haiku): FreshOut Magazine (online)
May 2021
Ant Trails
(children's fiction): Imperium Publishing
May 2021
Raven
(science fiction thriller): Imperium Publishing
February 2021
in a bottle of ink
(haiku, tanka, haibun): Imperium Publishing
Second Edition 2020
Home Front
(WWII historical fiction): Imperium Publishing
October 2020
Hotel Toledo
(crime/mystery novella): Glass Lyre Press
March 2020
“Focus”
(poetry): Pirene's Fountain (print)
September 2017
"grandpa's jokes," "oscillating fan," "dad's funeral," "Haunted" (haiku & a haibun): failedhaiku (online)
A Journal of English Senryu
May 2016
"Camera Body," "Silver Anniversary," "Portrait Sitting," "Beetle," "Coming Home" (poetry): Watershed (print)
2016
"Nicholai," "The Dust of Other Stars"
(short fiction): Watershed (print)
2015
"Monarch," "Captive"
(poetry): Watershed (print)
2014
"The Cellar"
(creative non-fiction): Watershed (print)
2014
Moorman Prize for Prose - First Place
“Guernica,” “Cataracts”
(poetry): Pirene's Fountain (print)
November 2014
"Religioso," "Chimera," "Abstractions"
(poetry): First Water: Best of Pirene's Fountain (print)
November 2013
"Dust," "Gray," "Coconut"
(poetry): Watershed (print)
2013
"Mary Mary quite contrary"
(poetry): Pirene's Fountain (online)
April 2013
"a fly," "deposits"
(haiga): A Hundred Gourds (online)
March 2013
“A Hug for Buford”
(poetry): Encore NFSPS (print)
2012 Children's Poetry Competition
First Place
“Enchantment”
(poetry): Sonnet Poetry Competition (online)
2012
First Place
“Letting Go”
(haibun): Haibun Today (online)
March 2012
"summer breeze," "first recital,"
"the window"
(haiga): Tiny Words (online & print)
Issue 11.2 - 2011
"The Sketch"
(poetry): Pirene's Fountain (online)
October 2011
"tsunami"
(haiga): Notes from the Gean (online)
June 2011
"lamplight"
(haiku): Tiny Words (online & print)
Issue 11.1 - March 2011
"Religioso"
(poetry): Pirene's Fountain (online)
October 2010
Nominated for the Editor's Prize
"a spider," "the little spider"
(haiku): Tiny Words (online & print)
Issue 10.2 - September 2010
"The Darkened Temple"
by Mari L’Esperance
(book review): Pirene's Fountain (online)
April 2010
"Unrequited," "One Breath"
(poetry): Pirene's Fountain (online)
April 2010
"the basket," "tattered flag"
(haiga): LYNX (online)
Issue XXV:1 - February 2010
"Chimera," "Chrysalis"
(poetry): Pirene's Fountain (online)
October 2009
"divorce papers"
(senryu): Prune Juice (online/print)
Summer 2009
"making change," "unexplored path," "lightning strike," "column of smoke" (haiku): Notes from the Gean (online)
June 2009
"Abstractions"
(poetry): Pirene's Fountain (online)
May 2009
Nominated for the Editor's Prize
"The Bounty Here"
(poetry): Pirene's Fountain (online)
May 2009
“The Leading Trees”
(poetry): Margaret Reid Poetry Prize for Traditional Verse
2008
Commended
"The Sparrow Found Him First," "Danse Oriental,"
"Acquaintance by Birth"
(poetry): Pirene's Fountain (online)
October 2008
"Dew," "Disconnect," "Picasso's Children"
(poetry): Pirene's Fountain (online)
May 2008
"Rain Song," "Leading Trees"
(poetry): Pirene's Fountain (online)
January 2008
"Yellow Canopies"
(short fiction): Tell A Story Competition
June 2006
First Place
Grandpa Trucil's True Tales
(monthly column): Up the Creek News (print)
July 1983 - June 1985
"Pariah"
(short fiction): Hillock (print)
1983